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Rich Bellon |
(517) 353-1739
bellonr@msu.edu
Richard Bellon is a historian of science who holds joint appointments in MSU's Lyman Briggs College and the Department of History. His research focuses on 19th-century natural history, with a particular concentration on the reception of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection.
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| C. Titus Brown |
(517) 355-1646
C.
Titus Brown is an assistant professor of
Computer Science and Engineering in MSU’s College of Engineering and of
Microbiology and Molecular Genetics in the College of Natural Science. His
research interests include computational biology, bioinformatics, open source
software development, and software engineering.
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Danita Brandt |
(517) 345-6595
brandt@msu.edu
Danita Brandt is an associate professor of geological sciences and adjunct curator of vertebrate natural history at the MSU Museum. Her own evolutionary interests lie in the paleobiology, paleoecology, and extinction of fossil arthropods, particularly trilobites and eurypterids. She is co-chairperson of MSU's Darwin Discovery Day committee which organizes an annual celebration of science in observance of Charles Darwin's birthday.
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Betty Cheng |
(517) 355-8344
chengb@cse.msu.edu
Betty H.C. Cheng is a professor of computer science and engineering in MSU’s College of Engineering. Her research interests include high assurance systems, integrating informal and formal software engineering techniques, automated software engineering, model-driven engineering, embedded systems, dynamically adaptive software systems, and harnessing digital evolution for developing high-assurance systems.
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| Jeff Conner |
(269) 671-2269
connerj@msu.edu
Jeff Conner is a professor of plant biology with MSU’s Kellogg Biological Station who teaches a course on evolution. Conner and colleagues conduct studies integrating ecology, evolution, behavior and genetics. His team is particularly interested in understanding the processes by which natural and sexual selection in plants and insects produces adaptation to a variable environment.
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| Erik Goodman |
(517) 355-6453
goodman@egr.msu.edu
Erik Goodman is a professor of electrical and computer engineering and mechanical engineering in MSU’s College of Engineering. His research deals primarily with developing new ways of using evolutionary computation to solve problems in engineering design. He also co-directs MSU’s Genetic Algorithms Research and Applications Group (the GARAGe), a multi-disciplinary unit interested in the application of genetic algorithms, genetic programming, and other forms of evolutionary computation to real-world problems.
(517) 432-3691
holekamp@msu.edu
Kay Holekamp is a professor of zoology in MSU’s College of Natural Science and director of the Ecology, Evolutionary Biology, and Behavior program. Work in her lab focuses on the ontogenetic development, physiological substrates, and evolution of mammalian behavior. Holekamp and her students are currently pursuing various lines of research investigating how social, ecological, and physiological variables interact during an individual’s early development to influence its subsequent behavior and its reproductive success as an adult. They are conducting a long-term behavioral field study of free-living spotted hyenas in Kenya.
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| Rich Lenski click for high-resolution image |
(517) 884-5397
lenski@msu.edu
Richard Lenski’s research focuses on experimental evolution and the ecological processes and genetic mechanisms that cause evolutionary change. He also is a co-founder of MSU’s Digital Evolution Lab and a John A. Hannah Distinguished Professor. Lenski’s lab has gained considerable recognition for watching evolution as it happens in the context of experiments performed under controlled conditions. E. coli was the first mechanism to be followed by the revolutionary development of artificial life – a computer program that allows digital organisms to test generalizations about how life has evolved. He is featured this month in a number of articles about the Darwin bicentennial. In addition to a feature in the February BBC Focus magazine, he is the subject of an article in the Jan. 31 Science News and a National Science Foundation special online report, which goes live Feb. 12 at http://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/.
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Philip McKinley |
(517) 353-4396
mckinley@cse.msu.edu
Philip K. McKinley is a professor of computer science and engineering in MSU’s College of Engineering. His current research interests include artificial life, self-adaptive software, evolutionary computation, mobile computing, and group communication protocols.
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| Charles Ofria |
(517) 355-8389
ofria@msu.edu
Charles Ofria is an assistant professor of computer science and engineering in MSU’s College of Engineering, and the co-founder and director of MSU’s Digital Evolution Lab. His research focuses on the interplay between computer science and Darwinian evolution, using the principles of each field to enhance understanding of the other.
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| Rob Pennock click for high-resolution image |
(517) 432-7701
pennock5@msu.edu
Robert Pennock is a professor in MSU’s Lyman Briggs College, with appointments in philosophy, computer science and engineering, and the Ecology, Evolutionary Biology and Behavior graduate program. Pennock has published two books and many articles that critique the intelligent design creationist movement. He was an expert witness in the historic Kitzmiller v. Dover case that ruled it unconstitutional to teach intelligent design creationism in public schools.
(517) 884-5400
tschmidt@msu.edu
Thomas M. Schmidt is a professor of microbiology and molecular genetics in MSU’s College of Natural Science. His research focus is on the application of evolutionary principles to analysis of metagenomes from complex microbial communities, and understanding tradeoffs between power and efficiency in structuring microbial communities.
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| Eric Torng |
(517) 353-3543
torng@cse.msu.edu
Eric Torng is an associate professor of computer science and engineering in MSU’s College of Engineering. His research interests include the development and analysis of algorithms for processing biological information, and computational biology. He is a founding member of the Center for Biological Modeling at Michigan State University.
(517) 432-3484
barryw@msu.edu
Barry L. Williams is an assistant professor of zoology and of microbiology and molecular genetics in MSU’s College of Natural Science. His research focuses on the molecular genetic basis of evolutionary diversification.
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